Unless you are heartless

you will cry if you watch this video:

'Concrete Angel' by Martina McBride (Sorry, the embedding is disabled)

I've always liked Martina McBride's music (especially 'Independence Day'), but I had not heard this song or seen the video. Thanks, YKWIA, for showing it to me.

Looking forward to having a day off

Listening to: 'Because of You' by Kelly Clarkson



and celebrating the 4th, barring rain at least. I plan to go to the downtown festival from about 12-2:30 (the parade runs at 2;I have to be somewhere from 3 until 4 or 5, so I'm hoping the parade doesn't run too over--it seems longer every year). Then it's back home to do what I can with the house until about 8:30, when it's time to go to watch the fireworks.

Objectives:

• funnel cake (yes, I'm diabetic; but it's once a year)
  
• wend through vendors
  
• find some inexpensive earrings (say $12 or less), but otherwise not spend any money
  
• parade
  

Happy Independence Day! (also one of my favourite songs)

PS The cat marching band was too bizarre to resist, but I found them at a site called Webweaver:

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Listening to...

women burning down houses. No, really.

I was listening to Shawn Colvin's 'Sunny Came Home' on the way home tonight. It's a great song. But I truly love Martina McBride's 'Independence Day'. It really captures the emotions involved. (Both of the official videos have embedding disabled by request, so there's just superficial links to them, sorry).

I wasn't going to blog tonight. I was going to go straight to bed. Not a lot happened today, although I finished Jim Butcher's Fool Moon and watched two movies I enjoyed--The Brothers Grimm and Nancy Drew. I didn't know the former was a Terry Gilliam film until afterwards, but it so made sense. :) They were both fun--although it's a little weird watching Heath Ledger, who has only recently died, immortalised in film. The Wikipedia article on Gilliam's film has a nice listing of the various fairy tales and legends that were incorporated into the film--although they missed the 'Snow Queen' reference of the spike driven into the heart that YKWIA immediately recognised. And the caretaker in Nancy Drew really was creepy, and I couldn't place him, but he was Coach Schneider of Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, so that may be it. Okay, enough trivia--I'm going to go to bed now. Good night.